Tutorial :Multithreading in .NET - implementing a counter in the background

Question:

As a training exercise, I am creating a counter that runs in a background thread, in a .NET 3.5 WPF app. The idea is that the counter gets incremented and every few seconds the total is output to the screen.

As it is a training exercise, the foreground thread doesn't really do anything, but imagine that it does!

There is a start and stop button to start and stop the counter.

The problem is that I want the foreground thread to poll the total every few seconds and update it in the text box on the form. The entire app goes 'Not Responding' when I try this. Currently I have only got it to update the count a fixed time after it starts it.

I'll dump all the code in here, so that you get the whole picture:

 public partial class Window1 : Window      {          public delegate void FinishIncrementing(int currentCount);          private int reportedCount;          private Thread workThread;            public Window1()          {              InitializeComponent();          }            #region events            private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)          {              txtCurrentCount.Text = "0";              reportedCount = 0;              InitialiseThread();          }            private void btnStart_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)          {              workThread.Start();                // Do some foreground thread stuff                Thread.Sleep(200); // I want to put this in a loop to report periodically              txtCurrentCount.Text = reportedCount.ToString();          }            private void btnStop_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)          {              workThread.Abort();              txtCurrentCount.Text = reportedCount.ToString();              InitialiseThread();          }            





        



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